JONES, GRANDPA
(1913–1998)
JONES, GRANDPA (b. Louis Marshall J., Niagara, Ky., October 20, 1913–February 19, 1998) A country comedian and BANJO player who portrayed an eighty-year-old hayseed beginning when he was just twenty-two, Jones was a featured performer on the HEE HAW TV show. The youngest of ten children of a sharecropping family, Jones grew up listening to his father's FIDDLE playing and his mother's accordion playing. He got his first GUITAR from his brother, and before he was fifteen, he was performing…